Increased cutaneous immunoreactive stem cell factor expression and serum stem cell factor level in systemic scleroderma

Journal of Dermatological Science

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 72-78

  Kihira, Chika ^a   Mizutani, Hitoshi ^a   Asahi, Kunihiko ^a   Hamanaka, Hiroko ^a   Shimizu, Masayuki ^a  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

c Kit; Mast cell; Pigmentation; Steel factor

Indexed keywords

STEM CELL FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL MATURATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; FOREARM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERPIGMENTATION; MAST CELL; MELANOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; SKIN ATROPHY; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS;

ADULT; AGED; BLOTTING, WESTERN; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; SKIN; STEM CELL FACTOR;

EID: 0032952797     PISSN: 09231811     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0923-1811(98)00077-2     Document Type: Article

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